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Difficult Conversations

How to Discuss What Matters Most

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask"

We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to:

#65533; Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation #65533; Start a conversation without defensiveness #65533; Listen for the meaning of what is not said #65533; Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations #65533; Move from emotion to productive problem solving